WESH

In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk's companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in ...
Wired

People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers. A public offering will allow SpaceX ...
CNN

Do you live near a data center? Tell us what it’s like

New data center construction projects are springing up across the United States, as the tech industry seeks to meet huge computing demand to power artificial intelligence and the massive volume of ...
The Hill

Musk’s xAI, SpaceX sued over ‘pervasive and inescapable’ data center power plant noise

Mississippi residents are suing Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over the “pervasive and inescapable” noise from their data center and accompanying power plant in a Memphis, Tenn.-area community. Three ...
The Conversation

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers ...
The Boston Globe

Energy, water use, and pollution by data centers is expected to double in four years

WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
Barron's

U.S. Adds 172,000 Jobs in May. What the Gain Means for the Fed's Next Move.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the May jobs report at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Here is what it showed: Payrolls: +172,000, higher than April's rate of 115,000. Unemployment rate: 4.3%, the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
The New York Times

California Governor Primary 2026: Live Election Results

Gov. Gavin Newsom cannot run again because of term limits. The leading Democrats trying to succeed him are Xavier Becerra, a former California attorney general; and Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund ...
CNBC

Stargate live updates: OpenAI's Altman says 'people are right to be anxious' about AI

CNBC is live from the site of OpenAI's Stargate Michigan data center project. OpenAI and Oracle held an official groundbreaking for the $16 billion Stargate campus in Saline Township, Michigan, on ...
The Chronicle

Duke starts construction on data center near Central Campus

Duke recently began construction on a small graphics processing unit data center, adjacent to Central Campus, that top administrators say will boost the University’s computing capacity while adhering ...